December 12, 2004
Where Am I?
Boy, a couple of priorities change and everything gets all scrambled around. Where have I been lately?
Musically? I'm taking this course on film scoring, and our final project is to write around four minutes of full orchestral music for a student film. We're at a key phase in the project right now where we get our theme ideas approved - after that point we can start developing the material and syncing it with the film itself. This is all before we start actually orchestrating it. Needless to say, it's taking up a bit of time.
Business? As the year is wrapping up, I've been involved in all sorts of corporate planning. Since this is my first year of being incorporated, I don't really know what I'm doing in a few areas - specifically, taxes and retirement. It looks like I'm signing up for an "Individual 401k" plan, which is different than an IRA, Roth, SEP, SIMPLE, or the type of standard 401k that one's employer might give them. But as is always true with these sorts of things, there are right ways and wrong ways to go things, and you don't always know until after the fact what it was you actually should have done.
Politics? I'm still looking into graduate school, but I'm taking my time, because one of the things I know about myself is that I'm always coming up with project ideas, and that it's not usually worth immediately starting any of them, because many of my ideas don't age well. So it's usually wise for me to sit on my ideas for a while to see which ones stick around and which ones don't.
Socially? Hard to say. Dating's been a bit aggravating lately.
Weblog? Changes are afoot. ;-) Stay tuned.
What about two of your biggest projects/purchases of this last year? The house and the piano?? Pictures! Where are the pictures?? :-)
And home improvment stories. Most all homebuyers develop a loving relationship with their nearest Lowe's or Home Depot? Was that not true for you?
Now that you have the piano, are you happy with it? Would you make the same choice if you had to do it again? Same with the house.
Just a thought, ya know!
Posted by: Kath at December 12, 2004 08:56 AMI haven't bought the piano yet! I wanted to do my floors first, but then that turned into a huge headache. bleah.
Bummer about the floors. I know what you mean. When I moved into my house my top two priorities were a Flat Screen TV and a pool table.
Sadly, the carpet was trashed and the paint was the original paint job from 12 years ago.
So I went with new Berber and really cool paint colors. Priorities can change in a heartbeat as you well know!
Posted by: Kath at December 12, 2004 09:47 PM